Come, Let Us Ascend

Come let us as­cend

My com­pan­ion and friend

To a taste of the ban­quet above:

If thy heart be as mine

If for Je­sus it pine

Come up in­to the cha­ri­ot of love.

Who in Je­sus con­fide

They are bold to out-ride

The storms of af­flict­ion be­neath

With the pro­phet we soar

To that heav­en­ly shore

And out­fly all the ar­rows of death.

By faith we are come

To our per­ma­nent home:

By hope we the rap­ture im­prove:

By love we still rise

And look down on the skies

For the heav­en of heav­ens is love.

Who on earth can con­ceive

How hap­py we live

In the ci­ty of God

the great King!

What a con­cert of praise

When our Je­sus’s grace

The whole heav­en­ly com­pa­ny sing?

What a rap­tur­ous song

When the glo­ri­fied throng

In the spir­it of har­mo­ny join!

Join all the glad choirs

Hearts

voic­es and lyres

And the bur­den is mer­cy di­vine!

Hallelujah they cry

To the King of the sky

To the great ev­er­last­ing I Am;

To the Lamb who was slain

And liv­eth again

Hallelujah to God and the Lamb!

The Lamb on the throne

Lo! He dwells with His own

And to riv­ers of plea­sure He leads

With His mer­cy’s full blaze

With the sight of His face

Our bea­ti­fied spir­its He feeds.

Our fore­heads pro­claim

His in­ef­fa­ble name

Our bo­dies His glo­ry dis­play:

A day with­out night

We feast in His sight

And eter­ni­ty seems as a day!